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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teach her that it’s easiest to just split down the middle than try to do the math and if she can’t afford to do that, don’t go out. [/quote]

Here’s the moocher!!

Easier for you, but not for those are actually on a budget and don’t want to fund your expensive tastes and insensitivity.[/quote]

agree -- I remember the days when I was first starting out and I made a lot less than my friends.  When they split the bill evenly it really hurt my budget.  But I never said anything.  :([/quote]

This depends on your friends. I make a lot of money now (as do my friends, generally speaking), but I didn’t always and have always been in the split the bill camp. But no one engages in egregious behavior. Sometimes somebody has one more drink than the rest, or someone orders food while the rest of us just have drinks, but it generally evens out over time. But I agree people should be sensitive to that if you’re a group that splits evenly. Or someone else speaks up for the person who just got ice cream (or whatever) and everyone else splits.

[b]OP, you have the right idea teaching your DD to remember to add tax and tip.[/b] On the rare occasion that I pay someone else for my proportional share of a bill I always round up/add a few extra dollars after tax and 20% tip just to be careful and thank the person who put it on their card. I really can’t stand people who are cheap at the expense of their friends.

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Thanks! She's at an age where they like to add up and itemize what they consumed (fun for them) and she understands tipping but has no idea about taxes. She was with a large group of mostly strangers, so not the case of splitting evenly, all coming out in the wash. She'll get to that point though. When she goes out with her one best friend there's already a lot of turn-taking without the bean counting. [/quote]

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